David Alan Parnell is a Professor of History and has been teaching courses in ancient and medieval Mediterranean history at IU Northwest since 2012. He has received the Founder’s Day Teaching Award, multiple Trustees’ Teaching Awards, and an Online Teaching Award. He is the author of Belisarius & Antonina (Oxford, 2023), Justinian’s Men (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and numerous articles about the military and social life of the sixth-century Roman Empire. He is also a consultant, recently working on Epic History TV’s documentary series on Belisarius.
Read Professor Parnell’s publications on ResearchGate.
HIST-H 113 History of Western Civilization I
HIST-H 114 History of Western Civilization II
HIST-C 386 Greek History
HIST-C 388 Roman History
HIST-C 300 Early Christianity
HIST-B 351 Early Medieval Europe to 1000
HIST-B 300 The Barbarians
HIST-B 346 The Crusades
HIST-F 116 First Year Seminar in History
HIST-H 215 Historical Methods for History Majors
HIST-J 495 Proseminar for History Majors
HIST-T 510 Historical Methodology for MA Students
Education
B. A.
University of California, San Diego
M. A.
Saint Louis University
Ph. D.
Saint Louis University
Publications & Contributions
Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict, edited by Thomas Madden, Aldershot: Ashgate Press (149-157), 2010
Medieval Prosopography, vol. 27 (1-75), 2012
Journal of Medieval Military History, vol. 10 (1-16), 2012
Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity, edited by Paul Christesen and Donald Kyle, Malden: Wiley-Blackwell Press (633-645), 2014
Journal of Late Antiquity, vol. 8.1 (114-135), 2015
